For over a year, the UK tabloids did everything they could to find Meghan's dad. "Once they did, I remember being told there was this huge headline like 'We found him' or 'We got him.' You're talking about someone's father," Meghan said. "And from that point, the tabloids, they moved into the apartments next door and across from him. Descended on this small town, were just giving him gifts. The whole thing brings us to where we are today."
Meghan asked her father point-blank if he'd spoken to the tabloids, and he lied to her. "The tabloids had apparently known for a month or so and decided to hold until the Sunday before our wedding because they wanted to create drama," Meghan explained. "We called my dad and we asked him, and he said, 'No, absolutely not.' And I said, 'You know, the institution has never intervened for anything for us, but they can try to go in and kill this story. But if they do this once, we're not going to be able use this same leverage to protect our kids one day . . . I just need you to tell me. And if you tell me the truth, we can help.' And he wasn't able to do that."
Meghan's half-sister Samantha, who wrote a "tell-all" book about her, didn't change her name back to Markle until after Meghan started dating Harry. "I think it'd be very hard to tell-all when you don't know me. This is a very different situation than my dad, right? When you talk about betrayal, betrayal comes from someone that you have a relationship with . . . I grew up as an only child, which everyone who grew up around me knows . . . She changed her last name back to Markle, I think she's in her early-50s at that time, only when I started dating Harry."